wine users - Oct 2006 - Re: Ugly menu/dialog font of applications, using debian

> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:46:57 +0100
> From: Jens Gulden <mail@jensgulden.de>
> Subject: Re: [Wine] Ugly menu/dialog font of applications, using
> 	debian sarge	and wine 0.9.8 and 0.9.22
> To: wine-users@winehq.org
> Message-ID: <4545F441.4080606@jensgulden.de>
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>
> Hallo Wolfram,
>
> maybe this the same problem I had for a long time. See:
>
> http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-users/2006-September/023525.html
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jens
>
> wolfram lechner schrieb:
> > hello,
> > I have a problem with an unsuitable font in the
> > windows menus/dialogs with the above versions of wine
> > (dont think this depends much on the versions, though.
> > Have not tried other versions so far.) when using
> > debian sarge.
> >
> > The font seems to look a bit ugly, usually destroys
> > partly the menu/dialog structures, and, most
> > important, has no German umlaut's (the diphtongs ae,
> > oe, ue and others) which I need definitely.
> >
> > I have, on an old small HD, a 'trial' debian sarge
> > wine0.9.8 installation that does not have this defect:
> > There the font has the umlauts, looks pretty and does
> > not destroy menu/dialog elements.
> >
> > Similarly, on 2 SuSE9.3/wine installations the problem
> > is also not present.
> >
> > Somehow I will have to change the system font I
> > supppose!??
> >
> >
> > In the user /.wine configuration directory there are
> > several (reg-)files with relation also to fonts. But I
> > could not make succesful font changes by editing any
> > of these files.
> >
> > Moreover, I copied the 'good' .wine-configuration
> > files from the above old trial debian HD to my 2
> > troubled installations - without any remarkable effect
> > on the behaviour of wine at all...
> >
> > I would be lucky to get some help...
> >
> > Wolfram Lechner
> >

Hello Jens,
Hello everybody,

This link you have found about similar font problem is mine:
 http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-users/2006-September/023525.html

I should have written to this list to let you know how it ended. I discovered 
that this is a wine bug:
 http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6049

I am pretty sure that this is a real bug, because I checked wine-git tree with 
bisect and there was an obvious bug in a patch from qingdoa daoo. It was also 
reported by someone else. 

I thought this is a minor thing, that nobody cares, but if it is not, please 
add your comment to this bug, so we can persuade that this is more important 
or make the status change to "confirmed", because nothing happens. 
The bug was opened  on 2006-08-25 02:25

regards

Piotr Sawicki

Hi,

Piotr Sawicki wrote:
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6049
> please  add your comment to this bug
I think the problem I once had (and solved as described in 
http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-users/2006-September/023525.html) was a
different one.

Not only some characters showed up as boxes (e.g. german umlauts), but a WRONG
FONT was used. All
dialogs, menus etc. appeared in a "Courier"-style type-writer like
font.

Like Wolfram reported
(http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2006-October/023678.html), this
was not the case until version 0.9.8, but occurred beginning with 0.9.9.

It looks like the patch you mentioned, Piotr, 
(http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-cvs/2006-May/022564.html) has been issued
after version 0.9.9.

best
Jens


Piotr Sawicki schrieb:
>>Message: 5
>>Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:46:57 +0100
>>From: Jens Gulden <mail@jensgulden.de>
>>Subject: Re: [Wine] Ugly menu/dialog font of applications, using
>>	debian sarge	and wine 0.9.8 and 0.9.22
>>To: wine-users@winehq.org
>>Message-ID: <4545F441.4080606@jensgulden.de>
>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>>Hallo Wolfram,
>>
>>maybe this the same problem I had for a long time. See:
>>
>>http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-users/2006-September/023525.html
>>
>>Hope this helps,
>>Jens
>>
>>wolfram lechner schrieb:
>>
>>>hello,
>>>I have a problem with an unsuitable font in the
>>>windows menus/dialogs with the above versions of wine
>>>(dont think this depends much on the versions, though.
>>>Have not tried other versions so far.) when using
>>>debian sarge.
>>>
>>>The font seems to look a bit ugly, usually destroys
>>>partly the menu/dialog structures, and, most
>>>important, has no German umlaut's (the diphtongs ae,
>>>oe, ue and others) which I need definitely.
>>>
>>>I have, on an old small HD, a 'trial' debian sarge
>>>wine0.9.8 installation that does not have this defect:
>>>There the font has the umlauts, looks pretty and does
>>>not destroy menu/dialog elements.
>>>
>>>Similarly, on 2 SuSE9.3/wine installations the problem
>>>is also not present.
>>>
>>>Somehow I will have to change the system font I
>>>supppose!??
>>>
>>>
>>>In the user /.wine configuration directory there are
>>>several (reg-)files with relation also to fonts. But I
>>>could not make succesful font changes by editing any
>>>of these files.
>>>
>>>Moreover, I copied the 'good' .wine-configuration
>>>files from the above old trial debian HD to my 2
>>>troubled installations - without any remarkable effect
>>>on the behaviour of wine at all...
>>>
>>>I would be lucky to get some help...
>>>
>>>Wolfram Lechner
>>>
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Jens,
> Hello everybody,
> 
> This link you have found about similar font problem is mine:
>  http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-users/2006-September/023525.html
> 
> I should have written to this list to let you know how it ended. I
discovered
> that this is a wine bug:
>  http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6049
> 
> I am pretty sure that this is a real bug, because I checked wine-git tree
with
> bisect and there was an obvious bug in a patch from qingdoa daoo. It was
also
> reported by someone else. 
> 
> I thought this is a minor thing, that nobody cares, but if it is not,
please
> add your comment to this bug, so we can persuade that this is more
important
> or make the status change to "confirmed", because nothing
happens.
> The bug was opened  on 2006-08-25 02:25
> 
> regards
> 
> Piotr Sawicki
>